The God Principle

 

 

 

 

In the many months and years that followed, Aliyah and Theo experienced and understood the joys, struggles, frustrations and rewards of parenting, and also the love, commitment and sacrifice it took to sustain their family unit. The lessons came through significant emotional turmoil, with her outbursts often taxing Theo heavily. She was coming face to face with aspects of herself that she had never suspected existed. The sunny and bright surface of her emotional waters could quickly turn into a dark, roiling tempest on short notice. At times, Theo could trigger certain deep emotions in her by a simple spoken word, a careless action, a mocking gesture or even by his silence. She had no clue how these slights managed to push her buttons, except that they did. And she found herself plumbing the depths of a sea of emotion inside her being, only to discover that there was precious little she knew about her own nature. There was indeed a deep sea of unknown and uncharted territory within. And a sea it was, for she quickly recognized the association.

 

For the seas of the earth composed a proper reflection of human emotional nature. The sea drew people irresistibly to herself like a magnet, to sail her waters and to settle on her shores. With beautiful rolling waves and soothing rhythms, shimmering waters, cool winds, lapping tides, gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, and depths that cradled creatures both fascinating and mysterious, the sea always held human imagination captive. Like an enchantress she called to human souls with all her beauty and seductiveness, and like the sirens of old she could also be dangerous. The calm and cool reveries could quickly change into a tempest, with stormy winds under the darkened brow of the sky lashing up great waves, which tossed, turned, foamed, churned and lashed with unimaginable power and ferocity, swallowing many a ship or boat that got caught in her fury. At times she invaded the land and washed away whole towns and cities. The sea was often considered moody, fickle, even treacherous, and men tended to associate a feminine nature with the sea, signifying an overabundance of emotional nature. The loving, caring, peaceful and happy nature of positive emotions, and the horrendous destructive power of rampant negative emotions were blatantly displayed by the sea for all those who looked to see.

 

Did this curious association of the emotional with the sea go any deeper? Within the human body was also to be found another sea, that of blood. More than two-thirds of the earth was covered with oceans, and like its counterpart, the red sea within occupied more than two-thirds of the human body. The most common element dissolved in sea water was sodium chloride or common salt. The same element was abundantly present in the human red sea, making blood salty to the tongue. Oceanic currents moved nutrients and warmth throughout its own watery body and also through the atmosphere as the well known water cycle, enabling life to flourish on land and in the sea. The water cycle brought back from land dissolved filth and waste, and also minerals and nutrients that were recycled into its waters. These oceanic currents also moved warmth throughout the earth, often passing on the heat to the winds, bringing warmth to the continents. The red sea within the human body also had its currents, which moved nutrients and heat throughout the body and returned wastes for recycling or disposal. And the blood was esoterically considered the carrier of emotional energy, with the heart being the center from which the energies circulated. Indeed, the very terms hot-blooded and cold-blooded were often associated with an abundance and a lack of emotions, respectively, and it was a curious fact that warm-blooded animals generally seemed to show emotional responses that the cold-blooded variety lacked. The menstrual cycles of women tended to follow cycles similar to lunar cycles, during which they could become moody, depressed and irritable, much as the sea too had her high and low tides influenced by the moon. There seemed to exist a curious association between the sea - whether the internal red sea or the external blue oceans - and human emotional natures.

 

Yet the connections with the sea were even deeper. Her vast and unfathomable depths mirrored the subconscious and unconscious levels that existed within human beings. While the higher levels of the atmosphere mirrored the higher mind and the more refined emotional aspects of consciousness, the sea and its depths mirrored the primitive emotional and lower-mind aspect of consciousness. Indeed the atmosphere held large amounts of moisture in the form of water vapor, just as the ocean and its depths held large amounts of dissolved air that allowed species to thrive. The surface of the sea with its dancing waves, the winds above, and the thin photic zone that existed beneath the surface reflected the average human consciousness. The waves were created by winds that transferred their energy to the sea. These mirrored human thoughts that encouraged emotions, resulting in turbulence. Often these waves were beautiful and gentle, but it took only a few sustained, strong winds to whip them into a frenzy, upon which the sea literally roared. But this energy exchange was not always in one direction. The waters could store energy for prolonged periods of time, just as emotional energy remained latent within human beings for long periods of time. Winds fed off this energy of the sea and transformed into great hurricanes that blew in and devastated shores. The emotional energy latent within human beings was often expressed likewise, for it greatly encouraged thoughts that resulted in violent behavior. It seemed that the surface of the sea thus reflected the average human consciousness in a peculiar manner.

 

But consciousness also had a deeper side which was often expressed not in the waking state, but during sleep, such as in dreams played out by the subconscious. The dream world appeared to have a separate reality of its own, apart from waking reality, much like the sea existed separately from the land. Indeed, the oceans had terrains and ecosystems similar to those on land. There were mountains taller than Mt. Everest, canyons larger than Grand Canyon, forests such as those of giant kelp, and plains wider than the Serengeti. There were rivers and waterfalls of ocean currents, cold and barren deserts where little of life was to be found, oases of geysers or hydrothermal vents, fiery undersea volcanoes, deep chasms and caves, and even terrain that looked literally out of this world. Hypsographic analysis of the earth’s crust revealed two independent bell-shaped curves for the continental and oceanic crusts, indicating that the domains of the land and the sea lived nearly separate lives that progressed on their own, yet had reflections of one another. Like waking and dreaming consciousness, the revealed and the hidden, day and night, the land and the sea existed side by side. Indeed, much of the seas were antipodal to land, positioned diametrically opposite land-masses on the globe, as the continent of Antarctica was antipodal to the Arctic sea. And like the ecosystems and creatures on land which carried reflections of his nature, the sea hinted at an alternate reality of the terrestrial dwelling human, that of his hidden nature in the form of his subconscious and the unconscious.

 

And how deep was this association? The surface of the sea, and the photic or light zone below represented the area of highest activity with the largest number of animals, where fish both large and small were to be found. This zone represented the average human consciousness where the mind and the emotions interacted. Going further down from the photic zone, the light faded and the active and dynamic movement characteristic of the upper layers was no longer to be found. There was an eerie ambience here, with its still, cold, lonely and dark waters, and the constant rain of organic matter drizzling down from upper layers. This level was particularly nutrient-rich, from which cold upswells brought much needed nutrients to upper levels where they fostered large-scale plankton blooms. These blooms were critical to the oceanic food-chain, as all life at those levels depended on these. Biological productivity, as the process was known, depended on this nutrient supply from deeper layers. Likewise the productivity of the average consciousness also depended on upswells from deeper layers. This level thus represented the deeper human subconscious, from which often welled-up useful concepts, ideas and solutions which were then processed by the average consciousness. More interestingly, the subconscious was usually more productive after the conscious mind had worked on a concept, applied straining thoughts to it. Likewise plankton blooms and increased biological productivity were usually found to follow a typical storm, after the winds helped stir up the deep waters and bring nutrients to the surface.

 

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